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Industrial equipment uses more than 25 percent of all the energy in the U.S. and industry players are using various techniques to increase industrial efficiency, as evinced by GE's recent purchase of power conversion company Converteam.

Award winners will receive more than $13 million to develop transformational manufacturing processes and technologies, an important step in increasing the energy efficiency of the American industrial sector which accounts for more than 30 percent of the energy used nationwide.